Digital BW, The Print

Susanna,

You're already using the "best solution" for your needs...although, 
you may want to upgrade your laser to 1200dpi, if you find one in 
your price range.  (I'm leaving out the "I think..." portion of this 
sentence since it is implied.)

I'm sure there are many people in this group and elsewhere that would 
disagree, but you sound like you would rather not deal with the 
inkjet issues and what's wrong with a good laser printer - besides 
the [just as expensive] toner cartridges?

A really good b/w laser printer that takes all types of paper, 
including card stock sounds like it would be perfect for your 
situation and doesn't require you to worry about switching over to 
the quadtone inksets.  IMHO, printing with a color inkjet printer 
with only the black ink, is not the best use of the printer, and may 
end up costing a pretty penny if the ink colors are not stored in 
independent cartridges.  If all the ink colors are in the same 
cartridges, you'll end up paying for a brand new cartridge everytime 
you run out of black...while the other colors are near 100% full.  
I'm sure this would make the Epsons and HPs of the world very happy 
to have you as an inkjet customer!

Just my two cents!

Patrick @ Digital Eyes Custom Photo
Pacheco, CA


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "sus123452000" 
<sus@m...> wrote:
> Does such a printer exist, that:
> 
> -prints B&W without ugly color casts (and without time-consuming
> adjustments and having to experiment with printing and fine-tuning
> each photo)
> 
> -approaches the quality of book-printed B&W photographs
> 
> -doesn't require the most expensive, photo-quality paper to get 
these
> results
> 
> -does a decent job printing the text along with the photos
> 
> -costs maybe $100 to $300 (possibly more if it were a printer whose
> supplies were especially cheap)
> 
> -is not extremely expensive to use.  "Extremely expensive," to me,
> would be using the special Quad grayscale inks, in prefilled
> cartridges, and printing on photo-quality paper.  (Bulk Quad ink 
that
> I'd fill myself, and a mid-range paper, might be acceptable), 
> 
>            -------------------------
> I realize I might have to compromise on some of the above . . .
> 
> There are a bunch of things that _don't_ matter much to me:  the 
speed
> of the printing, what type of printer it is (laser or inkjet or
> something else), whether or not it's capable of printing in color, 
how
> fade-resistant the printouts are in the long run.
> 
> I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions of printer/ink/paper
> combinations that are worth my considering.
> 
> -Susanna